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Ponies are being taken down from youtube again! I don't have all the details though.
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@citrusrain PMV's or episodes?
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:08:51 UTC from web-
@eaglehooves episodes
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@citrusrain I've already got them all downloaded, but still, that doesn't bode well. I'll have to take a look.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:12:41 UTC from web
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@citrusrain But I thought Hasbro saw them as free advertising o.O
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@leonkfox Last time, I do believe it proved to be trolls. That, or maybe Hasbro has a DVD set release in the works.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:16:47 UTC from web-
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@leonkfox I was just taking an optimistic outlook on it being official, but after their one-disc/two-episode DVD at Target, I'm thinking . . . maybe. It feels like a test, putting that DVD out. Sadly, I see LOADS of them still on the shelves. Which makes me think they'll decide it's not "viable" to do a full release. And I could go on at length ranting on the topic of why that's a braindead decision and an even worse way to go about things, but I won't. For the children.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:20:36 UTC from web-
@scribus but if they had the whole season (not just two episodes that no one cares about) WITH SPECIAL FEATURES...! I WOULD BUY THAT SO FAST
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:25:28 UTC from web-
@nightwillow Totally! I'd probably end up buying two, even. Not just to have two, but because I have an IRL broness (?) who's a bit cash strapped. Which I guess isn't that different than two people buying one each... Anyway, still. I'd have it already. Totally.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:29:34 UTC from web-
@scribus brony is a unisex term. you can also use pega-sis, or pegasister. but yeah, that's what OH GOD THERE'S A CODE RED AT THE HOSPITAL AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS THERE ARE ALL THESE FLASHING LIGHTS AND THIS VOICE I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON!!!! But yeah that's what I plan to do for my sister
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:34:25 UTC from web-
@nightwillow Wow, pega-sis ain't bad! Unless they're not pegasi-inclined... Either way, beats the (string of asterisks) out of "hoenie." Um... As for that there code red... yikes. 0.0 Beats code blue, IIRC... But still, yikes. 0.0
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:37:25 UTC from web-
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@colfax well they were saying "code red, one-ten, floor 10" or something like that. the woman at the waiting room desk didn't mind it at all.
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Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:40:58 UTC from web
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@colfax My only time in a hospital involved me being hospital-grade wounded, so all I really recall is a) pain and b) a vague sense of uneasiness born of "Halloween 2."
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:46:31 UTC from web-
@scribus My only time in one was spent being born, beyond that I had little to nothing to do with doctors and hospitals.
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@colfax Oh, yeah, birth. That happened to me, too. It was also my only time in the armed forces, unless you count my high school stint with the KISS Army.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:54:33 UTC from web-
@scribus The KISS army... now that brings back some memories, but yeah, I gave up on medicos when I outlived the third one by doing everything they kept telling me not to, I visit their graves once in a while to light up a cigar and grin like a maniac.
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@colfax I wouldn't say I entirely disbelieve in medical science, but I also keep in mind that we're all mortal, and that there is so much more in Chance's hands than people like to admit.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:59:37 UTC from web-
@scribus Nah, I decided a long time ago that I wasn't going to die, nopoint to it, after all it worked for Hob Gadling.
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@colfax After seeing Demona & MacBeth's stories, I figure immortality looks boring after a point. But, to each their own.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 20:03:55 UTC from web-
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Thursday, 18-Aug-11 20:08:25 UTC from web
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@scribus I'm guessing you never read any Sandman comics, specifically issue #13, titled "Men Of Good Fortune".
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@colfax No, I keep trying to get into comics but it never works out. Especially if Slave Labor Graphics gets involved.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 20:12:47 UTC from web-
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Thursday, 18-Aug-11 20:16:47 UTC from web
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Thursday, 18-Aug-11 20:38:26 UTC from web
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@scribus I love the people that make FiM, but I really hate Hasbro at times. I would so buy that two episode DVD if I could.
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@leonkfox I understand completely. you hate the whole corporate monster thing, but you want to support them so they will continue the show
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:37:10 UTC from web-
@nightwillow Exactly.
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@leonkfox I go back and forth. It's such a waste, itself, but if it is their silly marketing test... I'd feel like a foal if I ended up accidentally preventing them from making an official release of it all++.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:39:04 UTC from web-
@scribus There's no way a DVD or Blu-Ray release doesn't happen, there's a market for that in a big bad way. The marketing people at Hasbro are smart, you don't get a job in a marketing department at a place like Hasbro by being bad at what you do, you get it 'cause you're awesome at what you do. They know that if they release a DVD or Blu-Ray set of Se1, it will sell. They're a business, their goal is to make money. A DVD/Blu-Ray release of Se1 will make money. It'll happen.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:41:36 UTC from web-
@engelhardt It will certainly make my money. MUCH LIKE DISNEY WOULD MAKE MY MONEY WITH A GARGOYLES SEASON 2 SET 2 ALREADY!! D: Ahem. Excuse me. I don't know what came over me.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:43:35 UTC from web
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@leonkfox If they had more that two eps out, I might collect the set, but every DVD I've seen has the same 2 eps.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:44:01 UTC from web
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@leonkfox I bought it! There's not a lot to it. Just two episodes, that's it. Not even any extras! I wasn't expecting there to be anything extra, but I was hoping. Only bought it to report on it for MyLittlePonyNews.com, wanted to make sure what was on it before I made a post.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:39:08 UTC from web-
@engelhardt I just want to do everything I can to support the show, that doesn't involve buying the god awful overpriced toys.
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@leonkfox Overpriced? I dunno man, I've always found the prices to be really low compared to the rest of the toys on the market. Plastic is petroleum based, and I dunno if you've seen what the cost of petroleum is doing lately, but the price is going up, and it's not going to go down, so the fact that the small ones are only $5 is pretty darned cheap when you consider something like a Transformer that's about the same size is between $8 and $12.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:53:23 UTC from web-
@engelhardt In the UK the toys are a lot more expensive.
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@engelhardt Ponies over here are £6.99. That's just over $11.50.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:55:29 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Dude, whaaaat!? It's like they just switched the monetary symbol and didn't bother to take exchange rates into account.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:57:09 UTC from web-
@scribus That's exactly what they've been doing since 2003, by my count.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:59:06 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Well, I suppose one day we'll all adopt the Eartho; and of course, wouldn't you know it, most of the Galactic Federation wouldn't recognize it.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 20:01:29 UTC from web
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@thelastgherkin That's crazy! I paid less than that for the Canterlot set that had both Celestia and Luna. Toys 'R' Us also had a buy-one-get-one-free sale back in July that applied to MLP, so my collection's been pretty cheap.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 20:00:58 UTC from web -
@thelastgherkin Damn. That's a bummer. How does the price compare to other toys?
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 20:01:09 UTC from web-
@engelhardt ~£7 to ~£9 is the price of a bog standard no-special-features action figure. More special things like Deluxe Transformers hover around £12 (about $19). Playsets and things go up to £30 and higher, so that's $49. So basically, I've been toy collecting for years at preposterously inflated prices.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 20:05:56 UTC from web
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@scribus I think it's trolls again. Either that, or Hasbro has the worst lawyers ever. Most of the season you can still get to from the quick links off EqD. I think if it were Hasbro, they'd do better.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:19:14 UTC from web-
@eaglehooves Same.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:21:49 UTC from web-
@scribus From what I saw, it seems to be the pilot that's affected the worst. I don't see why Hasbro would crack down on one episode.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:23:58 UTC from web-
@eaglehooves That would be bizarro lawyering...
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:31:32 UTC from web
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@eaglehooves The fact that the episodes have been up this long is surprising. If you can watch the episodes in HD on YouTube, why would you be arsed to watch The Hub, or inquire to your cable company as to how you can get The Hub? You can't keep your product online in a public venue and let the revenues go someplace else. And the free advertising Hasbro was talking about was the fandom in general. All the PMVs, sites like EQD, and 'MyLittleBrony.com', all the fanart and fics, that's the free advertising they were referring to. There's no way a company like Hasbro could continue to endorse their entire product being on YouTube, where it takes money out of their pockets, and puts it in the pockets of someone else. I'm sure they let it slide for a while, but I'm really surprised it lasted as long as it did.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:26:00 UTC from web-
@engelhardt I have a feeling they get far more revenue from toys and the like than from the show itself. And people dont get hooked until they watch the show. People wouldnt order the hub until they were hooked, because they wouldnt care.
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@nutterguy what I mean there is that leaving the shows on youtube prevents a sort of catch 22 and actually works in hasbro's favor.
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@nutterguy How much money does Hasbro make off of ads that run during the show anyways? I don't get cable, and I'm not the one who makes the buying decision on that, so the internet's my only choice. Do those ads really outweigh the embarrassing amount of ponies I've bought?
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:38:11 UTC from web
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@nutterguy Probably, but the show's still a point of revenue. With season two inbound, a DVD/blu-ray release imminent, and the fanbase being the size that it is, it's probably better for them to start making FiM exclusive to The Hub, rather than use the internet as a big ol' test audience. It's already been proven that there's a market for the show, and once that online markets growth slows down, so does the benefit of letting people watch episodes on YouTube with no profits to Hasbro. Once you start reaching that peak fanbase, you gotta keep your best interests in mind, and for Hasbro, that's keeping episodes on The Hub, and not on something like YouTube. The torrents will always be around, and while torrent users and YouTube users do have a lot of crossover, there's also a lot of YouTube users who can't be arsed to use torrents.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:35:43 UTC from web-
@engelhardt >can't be arsed to use torrents *raises hand*
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:38:25 UTC from web-
@nightwillow inb4 Gherkin asks "what's a hand?"
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:40:37 UTC from web-
@scribus @nightwillow WHAT'S A HAND
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:41:04 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin WHO IS WHAT
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Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:45:22 UTC from web
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@scribus I can't exactly look at a picture of a hand and not call it a hand. Ceci n'est pas une main!
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:48:19 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin You know, I love surreal artwork, but surreal photography is not as high on my list at all...
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:55:15 UTC from web
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@nightwillow That would be me *raises hoof*.
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:46:44 UTC from web-
@eaglehooves WHAT IS RAISE
Thursday, 18-Aug-11 19:47:18 UTC from web
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